JSC2013-E-028654 (6 May 2013) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, backup Expedition 36/37 crew members Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (left), Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin (center) and Rick Mastracchio of NASA (right) pose for pictures May 6 during qualification exams in support of the prime crewmembers preparing for launch to the International Space Station. The prime crew, NASA's Karen Nyberg, Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency are set to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft on May 29, Kazakh time, for a five-month mission. Photo credit: NASA